Japan is known as a country in which a potent central power reigns over a compliant pyramidal hierarchy. For planning this has meant strong centralized government control. Yet, examples of autonomy have always existed ...

Analysing the evolution process of Brazilian federalism (result, among other things, of different Constitutions and tax collection policies) is one way to understand the complexity of the national territory. In this country, ...

This dissertation seeks to contribute to the construction of a socio-spatial theory based on the mobilization of some extension work influenced by Direct Technical Consultancy built by the Integration Office and linked to ...

The concept of socio-spatial groups proposed in this paper aims to provide a critical reflection on the research and practice of technical advisory services in architecture, urban design and urban planning. It designates ...

In order to produce their spaces groups of associated work adopt another rationality in spatial organization, not founded only in productivist bases. The reproductivist rationality includes traces of autonomy because it ...

This Masters dissertation is based on the construction of a theoretical lens that is used as a conceptual repertoire for the analysis of the Oasis Game, a method of citizen mobilization designed by Instituto Elos, a social ...

Considerando que os territórios são construídos e mantidos através de relações de poder exercidas por grupos sociais, hegemônicos ou não, entende-se que analisar as práticas que configuram tais territórios permitem a ...

This work aims to investigate the possibilities of the Internet to broaden the socio-political flows in a public space determined by the processes of globalization. Under the paradigm of the development of new technologies ...